Understanding Islam At European Museums

Author : Magnus Berg,Klas Grinell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108896177

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Understanding Islam at European Museums by Magnus Berg,Klas Grinell Pdf

Exhibitions of Islamic artefacts in European museums have since 1989 been surrounded by a growing rhetoric of cultural tolerance, in response to the dissemination of images of Islam as misogynist, homophobic and violent. This has produced a new public context for exhibitions of Islam and has led to major recent investments in new galleries for Islamic artefacts, often with financial support from the Gulf and Saudi Arabia. This Element addresses contemporary framings of Islam in European museums, focusing on how museums in Germany and the UK with collections of Islamic heritage realise the ICOM (International Council of Museums) definition of museums as institutions in the service of society. The authors find that far too often the knowledge of Islamic cultural heritage is disconnected from contemporary developments in museum transformations, as well as from the geopolitical contexts they are a response to.

Author : Katarzyna Puzon,Sharon Macdonald,Mirjam Shatanawi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000369205

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Islam and Heritage in Europe by Katarzyna Puzon,Sharon Macdonald,Mirjam Shatanawi Pdf

Islam and Heritage in Europe provides a critical investigation of the role of Islam in Europe’s heritage. Focusing on Islam, heritage and Europe, it seeks to productively trouble all of these terms and throw new light on the relationships between them in various urban, national and transnational contexts. Bringing together international scholars from a range of disciplines, this collection examines heritage-making and Islam in the context of current events in Europe, as well as analysing past developments and future possibilities. Presenting work based on ethnographic, historical and archival research, chapters are concerned with questions of diversity, mobility, decolonisation, translocality, restitution and belonging. By looking at diverse trajectories of people and things, this volume encompasses multiple perspectives on the relationship between Islam and heritage in Europe, including the ways in which it has played out and transformed against the backdrop of the ‘refugee crisis’ and other recent developments, such as debates on decolonising museums or the resurgence of nationalist sentiments. Islam and Heritage in Europe discusses specific articulations of belonging and non-belonging, and the ways in which they create new avenues for re-thinking Islam and heritage in Europe. This ensures that the book will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of heritage, museums, Islam, Europe, anthropology, archaeology and art history. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (see also http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Author : Benabed, Aicha; Bisheh, Ghazi; Al-Asad, Mohammad
Publisher : Museum With No Frontiers, MWNF (Museum Ohne Grenzen)
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783902966254

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DISCOVER ISLAMIC ART in the Mediterranean by Benabed, Aicha; Bisheh, Ghazi; Al-Asad, Mohammad Pdf

The great Islamic Dynasties of the Mediterranean are the protagonists of this book, together with their fascinating artistic and cultural legacy. Thirty-nine scholars, museum curators and experts in cultural heritage, from 14 countries in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, are the authors of the 22 chapters that take the reader through 13 centuries of Islamic history from the period of the Prophet Muhammad up until the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922). Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean is a collaborative work that was written for all those who share our idea that there is not only one history, but that at least as many histories as peoples exist. The idea of this book is to contribute to a historically more accurate and thus more authentic understanding of Islam by offering different perspectives of interpreting history, art and culture. This Book is published to complement the www.discoverislamicart.org Virtual Museum and its cycle of 18 Virtual Exhibitions Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean.

Author : Onur Öztürk,Xenia Gazi,Sam Bowker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000555950

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Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art by Onur Öztürk,Xenia Gazi,Sam Bowker Pdf

Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the creation of new myths and the encouragement of nationalistic and ethnic attitudes. Despite its Orientalist origins, the field of Islamic art has continued to evolve and shape our understanding of the various civilizations of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Situated in this field, this book addresses how universities, museums, and other educational institutions can continue to challenge stereotypical or homogeneous notions of Islam and Islamic art. It reviews subtle and overt mythologies through scholarly research, museum collections and exhibitions, classroom perspectives, and artists’ initiatives. This collaborative volume addresses a conspicuous and persistent gap in the literature, which can only be filled by recognizing and resolving persistent myths regarding Islamic art from diverse academic and professional perspectives. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, visual culture, and Middle Eastern studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ege Yayinlari
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture, Islamic
ISBN : 1874044635

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Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

The great Islamic Dynasties of the Mediterranean are the protagonists of this book, together with their fascinating artistic and cultural legacy. Thirty-nine scholars, museum curators and experts in cultural heritage, from 14 countries in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, are the authors of the 22 chapters that take the reader through 13 centuries of Islamic history from the period of the Prophet Muhammad up until the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922). Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean is a collaborative work that was written for all those who share our idea that there is not only one history, but there are at least as many histories as there are peoples. The idea of this book is to contribute to a historically more accurate, and thus more authentic, understanding of Islam by offering different perspectives of interpreting history, art and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Islam and art
ISBN : 9774271068

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Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benoît Junod,Georges Khalil,Stefan Weber,Gerhard Wolf
Publisher : Saqi Books - Saqi Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Islamic art
ISBN : 0863564135

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Islamic Art and the Museum by Benoît Junod,Georges Khalil,Stefan Weber,Gerhard Wolf Pdf

A unique, multi-authored volume on the issues and politics of curating Islamic art in the twenty-first century.

Author : Wendy M. K. Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474658

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What is “Islamic” Art? by Wendy M. K. Shaw Pdf

An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.

Author : Trinidad Rico
Publisher : Elements in Critical Heritage
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009183598

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Global Heritage, Religion, and Secularism by Trinidad Rico Pdf

The legacies of secularism in the global heritage preservation prevents the critical heritage turn from engaging with religious traditions.

Author : Natalia Grincheva,Elizabeth Stainforth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009192248

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Geopolitics of Digital Heritage by Natalia Grincheva,Elizabeth Stainforth Pdf

Geopolitics of Digital Heritage analyzes and discusses the political implications of the largest digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance, from the city-state governed Singapore Memory Project, to a national aggregator like Australia's Trove, to supranational digital heritage platforms, such as Europeana, to the global heritage aggregator, Google Arts & Culture. These four dedicated case studies provide focused, exploratory sites for critical investigation of digital heritage aggregators from the perspective of their geopolitical motivations and interests, the economic and cultural agendas of involved stakeholders, as well as their foreign policy strategies and objectives. The Element employs an interdisciplinary approach and combines critical heritage studies with the study of digital politics and communications. Drawing from empirical case study analysis, it investigates how political imperatives manifest in the development of digital heritage platforms to serve different actors in a highly saturated global information space, ranging from national governments to transnational corporations.

Author : Veysel Apaydin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009059480

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Heritage, Education and Social Justice by Veysel Apaydin Pdf

This research examines how museums and heritage sites can embrace a social justice approach to tackle inequalities and how they can empower disadvantaged groups to take an equal benefit from cultural resources. This Element argues that heritage institutions can use their collections of material culture more effectively to respond to social issues, and examines how they can promote equal access to resources for all people, regardless of their backgrounds. This research examines heritage and museum practices, ranging from critical and democratic approaches to authoritarian practices to expose the pitfalls and potentials therein. By analysing case studies, examining institutions' current efforts and suggesting opportunities for further development with regard to social justice, this Element argues that heritage sites and museums have great potential to tackle social issues and to create a platform for the equal redistribution of cultural resources, the recognition of diversities and the representation of diverse voices.

Author : Pamila Gupta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108897150

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Heritage and Design by Pamila Gupta Pdf

This Element looks at the relationship between heritage and design by way of a case study approach. It offers up ten distinct portraits of a range of heritage makers located in Goa, a place that has been predicated on its difference, both historical and cultural, from the rest of India. A former Portuguese colonial enclave (1510–1961) surrounded by what was formerly British India (1776–1947), the author attempts to read Goa's heritage as a form of place-ness, a source of inspiration for further design work that taps into the Goa of the twenty-first century. The series of portraits are visual, literary, and sensorial, and take the reader on a heritage tour through a design landscape of villages, markets, photography festivals, tailors and clothing, books, architecture, painting, and decorative museums. They do so in order to explore heritage futures as increasingly dependent on innovation, design, and the role of the individual.

Author : David Ludvigsson,Martin Stolare,Cecilia Trenter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009327411

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Here and Now at Historic Sites by David Ludvigsson,Martin Stolare,Cecilia Trenter Pdf

The study explores the meaning-making of cultural heritage in school field trips to five sites in the region Östergötland in Sweden. It treats the materiality of the place and experiences of the guides and the pupils, obtained in school as well as in other contexts, as meaning-making resources during the site visits. It emphasises that sites should be seen as processes, open to interpretations and reinterpretations. The visitor is steered by expectations and common values as well as by the ways in which the heritage site is displayed and presented. In the present study, both adults (guides) and children (pupils) are defined as visitors. The authors draw on theories from history education research and from heritage studies when interpreting how pupils encounter heritage sites, they underline the centrality of 'the flesh and embodied agency' in the experience of sites. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Simon Knell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351106399

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The Contemporary Museum by Simon Knell Pdf

The Contemporary Museum issues a challenge to those who view the museum as an artefact of history, constrained in its outlook as much by professional, institutional and disciplinary creed, as by the collections it accumulated in the distant past. Denying that the museum can locate its purpose in the pursuit of tradition or in idealistic speculation about the future, the book asserts that this can only be found through an ongoing and proactive negotiation with the present: the contemporary. This volume is not concerned with any present, but with the peculiar circumstances of what it refers to as the ‘global contemporary’ – the sense of living in a globally connected world that is preoccupied with the contemporary. To situate the museum in this world of real and immediate need and action, beyond the reach of history, the book argues, is to empower it to challenge existing dogmas and inequalities and sweep aside old hierarchies. As a result, fundamental questions need to be asked about such things as the museum’s relationship to global time and space, to systems and technologies of knowing, to ‘the life well lived’, to the movement and rights of people, and to the psychology, permanence and organisation of culture. Incorporating diverse viewpoints from around the world, The Contemporary Museum is a follow-up volume to Museum Revolutions and, as such, should be essential reading for students in the fields of museum and heritage studies, cultural studies, communication and media studies, art history and social policy. Academics and museum professionals will also find this book a source of inspiration.

Author : Frank Peter,Sarah Dornhof,Elena Arigita
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839421765

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Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe by Frank Peter,Sarah Dornhof,Elena Arigita Pdf

Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social. Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies in this volume explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam. From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics.